A nerds dream come true

Rating: 9/10 (12 October 2013)

This movie needs only few words to describe it: Tacky Hollywood cliché humor, over the top presentation, awesome visuals and at its core a pure understanding of the genre and a masterful delivery of said concept. It's all a Godzilla/Gundam fan would want to see while at the same time delivering a mainstream appeal to ease the publishers mind that spent a ton of money on making it. The criticism I've read on this movie is understandable and mostly true. Yet if you get thrown such a tasty bone among so many heaps of tasteless treats that Hollywood is known for, it's arrogant to put down something so long overdue and so well done simply because it is prone to Hollywood's usual machinations. If your heart can beat for the genre that this movie stands for, you will love it wholeheartedly. If you're simply intrigued and/or not necessarily a fan of the genre, you might get distracted by some of the, in my opinion minor, faults, which mostly damper a serious tone of the story line that is nevertheless achieved most of the time. It's too good not to enjoy and that's precisely the reason some people will actively look for faults they can trip over. Watch it and make up your own mind is all I can say.